Options shown or no?

When I see a story where upgrades happen or classes get picked up have mixed feelings when the other options come up. In some it just bothers me because options A B and C are shown but two will never come back and are wasted time. Knowing the other two can come back is interesting and I also like when like if you can choose between three versions of warrior in a game the other two warriors can appear with other characters but sometimes it goes “man why didn’t MC do THAT instead?”